Stefanie Sierra
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Bilingual Language Play used in Social media
Introduction
The topic of bilingual language play used in social media in particular Spanish. Especially when social media uses memes that are shared within a few minutes and are spread like wildfires. Social media has become a place in which the human population interacts by posting pictures and sharing their experiences and expressing their feelings. Memes are just way to show humor. As a bilingual speaker, in which I speak both Spanish and English I definitely understand the sense of humor behind the language play. Although I'm a New Yorker I did live in Mexico for about two years and with learning English afterwards was hard because some words sounded alike. In Spanish the way you write words out is based on how it sounds. So during class we came across memes in which said " Mexican word of the day" it would have an English word like chicken wing and if a Spanish speaker would say it they would say it like she can win, Even though there isn't a lot of information on this topic. So these are a few reasons that motivated me to chose this topic and in …show more content…
This chapter was mostly about internet memes and how they used language to create the memes. Within the chapter it also shared that memes are often related to certain topics that we see on the internet such as online trends, and cultures. It goes on to discuss what triggers these memes to stay relevant on social media and for the memes to not die out. " A successful meme has a number of key attributes contributing to its survival and proliferation: high longevity (the endurance of a copy), high fecundity (the rate of copying), and high copying fidelity (the amenability of the idea to copying)." (Dawkins,p.35) this chapter also states that humor is a fundamental in creating those
LCD 144W
Bilingual Language Play used in Social media
Introduction
The topic of bilingual language play used in social media in particular Spanish. Especially when social media uses memes that are shared within a few minutes and are spread like wildfires. Social media has become a place in which the human population interacts by posting pictures and sharing their experiences and expressing their feelings. Memes are just way to show humor. As a bilingual speaker, in which I speak both Spanish and English I definitely understand the sense of humor behind the language play. Although I'm a New Yorker I did live in Mexico for about two years and with learning English afterwards was hard because some words sounded alike. In Spanish the way you write words out is based on how it sounds. So during class we came across memes in which said " Mexican word of the day" it would have an English word like chicken wing and if a Spanish speaker would say it they would say it like she can win, Even though there isn't a lot of information on this topic. So these are a few reasons that motivated me to chose this topic and in …show more content…
This chapter was mostly about internet memes and how they used language to create the memes. Within the chapter it also shared that memes are often related to certain topics that we see on the internet such as online trends, and cultures. It goes on to discuss what triggers these memes to stay relevant on social media and for the memes to not die out. " A successful meme has a number of key attributes contributing to its survival and proliferation: high longevity (the endurance of a copy), high fecundity (the rate of copying), and high copying fidelity (the amenability of the idea to copying)." (Dawkins,p.35) this chapter also states that humor is a fundamental in creating those